Umm...trying to talk into my bass?

[Aukai]

I just read in the lesson section about putting the strings against your neck and vocal cords and humming or making noises so that you can actually sing through your bass? I wanted to know if this is actually possible because i've been humming on my strings for about 15 minutes and nothing is happening. Anyone who knows how to do this help me out?

[User Name]

you can yell into your pickups, i know that works

[metal_bassist88]

ive heard someone on here say it does work but im guessing you will have to turn it up loads so that you can hear it over your voice.

[PaulSimonon]

It's a good thing if it doesn't work... If it does, it's probably because there are loose windings in the pickup creating a situation where your pickup is microphonic.

[Machines]

The soundwaves from your voice could only possible vibrate the strings to make a note. Pickups don't pickup sound, but the electromagnetic field deviation created when a string vibrates.

In other words, no you can't.

[PaulSimonon]

Yes. You can... You just have to have the correct conditions.

[Aukai]

Well..I saw a violin player do it one time, he had distortion on thou...

[PaulSimonon]

Was he using a transducer?

[lateralus423]

Of course its possible i've done it before.

[PaulR]

I've done it on a guitar before, but not a bass.

[Aukai]

Was he using a transducer?

No Idea...he had a nice pedal board so it was probably possible, what the hell is a transducer?

Also, lateralus, how did you do it?What did you use

[PaulSimonon]

http://www.midi-classics.com/i/p20800.jpg
^Transducer on a violin bridge.

[Killer Fridge]

The soundwaves from your voice could only possible vibrate the strings to make a note. Pickups don't pickup sound, but the electromagnetic field deviation created when a string vibrates.

In other words, no you can't.

actually thats not neccessaraly correct - if a pickup is microphonic due to the windings being sligtly loose, talking into it will work as it causes the wire in the windings to vibrate and amplify the sound - only slightly, but it does work (only on non fantastic ones that havent been waxed)

[Bass_swede]

Brandon from Incubus does it into a guitar pickup in the studio for fun sometime. I saw it on TV/DVD.

[tim_commerfordism]

you can do it. microphonic pickups. trust me you can. especially with high-output PUP's. EG ricks.

ive seen it done. and ive done it.

http://www.fabchannel.com
Look for death from above 1979 on the right hand side. bring the video up and go on the song losing friends.

[Aukai]

I have EMG HZ on my schect, so i probably can't do it even with dist?

[PaulSimonon]

It depends on the pickup.

[Potatoe]

try swallowing metal shavings and talking right above the pickup!



and if anyone is actually stupid enough to do that, they deserve to live with the consequences... :smash:

[Aukai]

Anyone who suggest that deserves a potatoe as an avatar

[Spencer]

its possible to do the throught to strings thing. turn up your volume and put i the strings on your adams apple

[Potatoe]

Anyone who suggest that deserves a potatoe as an avatar

LMAO! :smash:

[SlincoJ]

I just tried this,and i was very surprised to find it worked..It didnt really work clean,but when i turned my muff on it worked perfectly.

[JBass]

if you've ever listened to coheed and cambira, they have some weird screams at the beginnign and end of some songs...its done through guitar pick ups with distortion, ime u can do it on bass if oyu screamed loud enough, youd probably have to record it to hear it though because your own voice would drown out the sound from the amp

[bassistuvdoom731]

You have to turn up your gain, MIds, Treble, distortion, anything that will make your pickups more sensitive. They have to be as sensitive as possible for it to work.

[Left Shoe]

the singer from coheed did it when i saw them

[Left Shoe]

if you've ever listened to coheed and cambira, they have some weird screams at the beginnign and end of some songs...its done through guitar pick ups with distortion, ime u can do it on bass if oyu screamed loud enough, youd probably have to record it to hear it though because your own voice would drown out the sound from the amp
are you sure? i thought that was just an inhale scream, you can achieve those same sounds with an inhale scream.

[JBass]

i think your right but when i saw them live it was a real scream so i just assumed it the same

edit: that song hearshot kid disaster (i think thats wut its called) he does one after the little beginnign part and it sounds like exhale but i dunno

[Specialsauce]

I just read in the lesson section about putting the strings against your neck and vocal cords and humming or making noises so that you can actually sing through your bass? I wanted to know if this is actually possible because i've been humming on my strings for about 15 minutes and nothing is happening. Anyone who knows how to do this help me out?
it soes indeed work. urn up the distortion first, though.

[Aukai]

Guess I'll have to wait til I get back to my dorm...my processor is back there.

[bassistuvdoom731]

Yesh, if your pickups are sensitive enough(distortion helps), it will work.

It scared the **** out of me the first time i did it, it was pretty cool though.